Fettling is a dangerous business!

[Cyclox]

With photos if possible

nothing to see all taped up.......

 

[Cyclox]

Should we run a book?

My money is on caught between chainwheel and chain.

Sorry Hover Fly not the chainwheel and chain...........maybe we should run a book!!

 

[Cyclox]

OK. I'll go with Allen key slippage on rusted bolt.

Rusted bolt! Nothing on my bike is rusty!! cheeky monkey! Sorry no not allen key slippage.........

 

[Cyclox]

Gashed hand on chainring when taking off drive-side pedal?

PS I just noticed that it was a finger injury not the rest of the hand. Yep - I'd go with caught between ring and chain!

ooops! no sorry ColinJ NOT caught between ring & chain.......

 

[Cyclox]

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Pump accident after fixing puncture?
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sorry swee'pea99 it wasn't that!

 

[Cyclox]

slipped on a lightbulb/hoover nozzle/water melon?

mmmmmmmm big clue: I was fettling at the time (fixing/tweaking things on my bike)......

 

[Cyclox]

I reckon it's spinning the back wheel really fast with the bike upside-down, then sticking your finger inquisitively between the spokes. Like my friend Paul did when we were kids.

Yikes..........but no it wasn't that either.........

 

[longers]

Opening one of those welded plastic containers that had perhaps brake pads in, there was slippage with the sharp thing and then a swear word followed by leakage?

 

[Cyclox]

Most places these days have a fast triage function to decide how urgently you need to be seen. Having a suspected heart attack puts you near the front of the queue, having hurt your finger near the back as you are unlikely to get worse or die from waiting a bit while they deal with the heart attack patient.

I could have 'bled out'!!

 

[Cyclox]

I'll go for carbon fibre explosion

cool! best imaginative guess so far.........but no not that!

 

[Cyclox]

I'll go for airhose getting accidently stuck up his her bum..

FOL.....LOL.....FOL again!! But no........not that!

 

[Cyclox]

I once managed to clamp a finger in a front mech while fitting it. It didn't injure it, just held it, very firmly. Since I couldn't reach either my land line, or my mobile, and lifting the whole bike was tricky, I did wonder if I'd starve to death. Eventually (well, after about 30 seconds probably), I managed to pull the spring back just enough to get the finger out.

I'm betting on a cable/outer trimming operation gone bad.

Sorry Arch........not that either!

 

[Cyclox]

Or into the brake disc

Getting warmer!

 

[Cyclox]

Fixed and chain ring incident - hope not

Don't worry fossyant it wasn't!

 

[Cyclox]

GWS Cyclox!

My personal theory is a 'tool related' injury, eg. slipped with cable cutters or something...

Thank you Sittingduck for your GWS.....it does hurt like hell & wont stop throbbing. Couldn't sleep last night but slept most of the day so knackered. The meds did help.

But no it wasn't tool related!